Understanding Property Taxes

View this short video entitled Special Delivery: City Services & Your Property Taxes, which was designed by the League of Minnesota Cities to help city residents better understand the local property tax system. 

The following links provide additional information on the property tax system: 

• Sherburne County Reassessment Memo for COVID-19
• Property Taxation 101 - describes the basics of Minnesota’s property tax system 
• Market Value Exclusion (MVE) Program - replaces the Market Value Homestead Credit (MVHC) program for taxes payable in 2012 and beyond 
• 14 Reasons Why Your Property Taxes May Vary from Year to Year - a video from the League of Minnesota Cities 
• Who Does What? - a guide to the Minnesota property tax system 
• State Homeowner Property Tax Relief Programs 101 - there are three property tax relief programs aimed at homeowners offered by the State of Minnesota: 
  • The Homeowner’s Property Tax Refund Program 
  • Targeting Property Tax Refund 
  • Senior Citizen Property Tax Deferral Program 
• Property Market Values - the Sherburne County Beacon Inquiry provides online access to property values and tax record information maintained by Sherburne County for individual parcels of property
• Minnesota Department of Revenue’s property tax fact sheets.